When a rare orchid is smuggled illegally into Midsomer Malham it releases the heady scents of passion, jealousy and death.

Barnaby and Troy are in Badger’s Drift again, this time to investigate the murder of an unpopular property developer called Richard Bayly who had been suffering from a brain tumour….

Gerald Hadleigh, secretary of a writers’ circle, is found battered to death the morning after the group’s meeting with best-selling novelist (and former psycho-therapist) Max Jennings. Gerald did not want…